Podcasts Health Busting Addiction and Its Myths Are You a Giver or a Taker?

Are You a Giver or a Taker?

Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 8 a.m.

In this podcast on enabling, we address the difference between caregiving and caretaking.

We learn that:

  1. Caregiving is a healthy desire to help another person in a purely altruistic manner, while caretaking is essentially a means of control.
  2. Caretakers hold the illusion that by averting disaster yet again, they will have helped the addict by shielding them from negative consequences.
  3. The family of an addict suffers not only from emotional harm and dysfunction, but family members are also known to suffer from a variety of stress-related physical disorders.
  4. As the disorder progresses, and it always does, the enabling family will subconsciously make progressively greater sacrifices, not realising that they have become the worst enemy of their loved one.